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>> yes, the team has been meeting with hrc, dating back a couple of years now at least. three years if i had to guess. we have had very productive discussions with hrc and work td with the staff and we have staff at the port that we have been able to enter face with on a project and we also had communication with the hrc on a letter that kind of states some of the goals that we are trying to achieve. so we look forward to continuing that discussion as property ject really takes shape and there is meat on the bones. but we would already be on a healthy dialogue with hrc. >> just to interject as we heard the fabulous numbers that we have been cutting this morning, perhaps that is what the commissioner brandon mighting alluding to not just the goals but exceeding them like we did at the cruise terminal. >> during what part of this, or of the project will those goals be established? >> you know, again, with hrc we do have a letter that we have exchanged with them, approximately a year ago, which we can provide to you. the number escapes me right now, and there is an agreed u
>> yes, the team has been meeting with hrc, dating back a couple of years now at least. three years if i had to guess. we have had very productive discussions with hrc and work td with the staff and we have staff at the port that we have been able to enter face with on a project and we also had communication with the hrc on a letter that kind of states some of the goals that we are trying to achieve. so we look forward to continuing that discussion as property ject really takes shape and...
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michael mcenolate. [ applause ] >> so at this point i will ask miss polk who is a staff member for the hrc who is fundamentally responsible for tonight's proceedings to assist us in distributing the awards. >> so, first, we have the hrc hero ward for individual leadership in civil rights and economic justice advocacy. our first awardy paul day in management and communications for the university of california san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] and mr. day, if you would like to talk to us about the work that you do for a few minutes. >> sure, yes. i just have to, i'm so honored to be mentioned in the same breath as all of you civil rights pioneers and our other 2013 awardees. i humbly thank you for choosing me for the work that i have done. i have always been a civic minded individual. i get that from my grandparents. i was thinking about this this afternoon and i remember the exact moment where the switch went off. i was a youth representative for the general assembly in presbyterian church in 1989 where they allowed gay ministers in the church. i sat there in the convention center that
michael mcenolate. [ applause ] >> so at this point i will ask miss polk who is a staff member for the hrc who is fundamentally responsible for tonight's proceedings to assist us in distributing the awards. >> so, first, we have the hrc hero ward for individual leadership in civil rights and economic justice advocacy. our first awardy paul day in management and communications for the university of california san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] and mr. day, if you would like to...
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>> ñrzvxdunfortunately becauset i was told by both hrc andçó th p.d. here i'm not allowed to talk about xdit. >> he did not acknowledge making a mistake inw3 front of our camera, but hec did in this, mal written to the student thelp da after the meeting, the first sentence reads i've been thinking about last ñrnight, ani have come to the conclusion that i made a terrible mistakeÑi inlu iñrok handled that situation. >> the email to her said you came to the conclusion you made a terrible mistake. did you? >> mr. mathis did talk with university police at san jose state. the daylp after the meeting in ñ office his former student filed this incident report. mathis was under investigation &i false imprisonment and sexual battery. he deny good criminal wrongdoing. tk(é#iled. lusion of the >> everything that that was a lie. was a lie. he said th!u wanted to kiss him. hi
>> ñrzvxdunfortunately becauset i was told by both hrc andçó th p.d. here i'm not allowed to talk about xdit. >> he did not acknowledge making a mistake inw3 front of our camera, but hec did in this, mal written to the student thelp da after the meeting, the first sentence reads i've been thinking about last ñrnight, ani have come to the conclusion that i made a terrible mistakeÑi inlu iñrok handled that situation. >> the email to her said you came to the conclusion you...
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we also have a program to the hrc to provide surety bonding program for small businesses. i understand that the reduction in the bonding requirement would assist small businesses in general. has the small business commission also helped to reach out with the small vendors, parking vendors who may participate in the parking program? >> we did not reach out in the hrc program. we have one of our commissioners is in the industry. he provided a little bit of expertise, but we did not reach out in relation to the hrc program on this matter. >> and again, we're attacking it from different ways. one is to reduce the bonding requirement for the vendors, which makes sense to me. i think that sounds good. we may also want tone courage people to look into some of the programs that we have for surety bonding. >> and i'll follow-up on that. thank you, chair. >> thank you. okay. thank you. why don't we open this item up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item number 10? >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tim [speaker not understood]. i'
we also have a program to the hrc to provide surety bonding program for small businesses. i understand that the reduction in the bonding requirement would assist small businesses in general. has the small business commission also helped to reach out with the small vendors, parking vendors who may participate in the parking program? >> we did not reach out in the hrc program. we have one of our commissioners is in the industry. he provided a little bit of expertise, but we did not reach...
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before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the school district, but i think there's things we can do differently to address this population. >> thank you for having this /haerling. this is an issue that has been in everybody's minds and hearts for a long time and we're real /hre thankful that it's get /t-g attention that it's due. so as a human rights commission our job is to investigate human rights in the city. just generally transgender immigrant population in the city, you know, the act of reporting, the act of standing up to your abuser or to the attacker and kind of having that agency and the strength to be able to do so. one of the things that the hrc did is in april we hosted a meeting that was attended by the san francisco police department, the hate crimes unit, supervisor
before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the school district, but i think there's things we can do differently to address this population. >> thank you for having this /haerling. this...
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there was a division within the hrc that monitored the contracts around the lbes and so that is now, the contract compliance component has been taken out of hrc and it is now under the city administrator's office. because all, you know, our, the office of contract administration is also under the city administrator's office. the risk management. so the idea was to bring all that have kind of under one house. so, the division is relatively new and it has taken the time to get up and go and so they are having an open house open their doors and present themselves to the public. so to speak. >> great. >> thank you. >> okay. next item, please? >> commissioners, item 12, legislation and policy committee report. >> and as the legislation and policy committee, we reviewed two of the items that we heard this evening, the folk street, alcohol and tobacco and paraphernalia restriction and we voted on that with comments. and we also heard the ban ordinance, which we voted to pass unanimously and it was. so. that is it for that item. >> next item. >> commissioners, item, 13, president's report. >
there was a division within the hrc that monitored the contracts around the lbes and so that is now, the contract compliance component has been taken out of hrc and it is now under the city administrator's office. because all, you know, our, the office of contract administration is also under the city administrator's office. the risk management. so the idea was to bring all that have kind of under one house. so, the division is relatively new and it has taken the time to get up and go and so...
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so, at one of the earlier meetings some weeks ago, one of the employees who works for the hrc but is paid by sfpuc came here and made some statements that were not correct. and when i was attending that meeting, according to the process, i did not see the members who were there, and one of those members is here. i did not see the process brought to this committee correctly. so, i'm just going to speak about this. i've written an article and i'm going to write another one on this. but, commissioners, i attend this meeting so that we have some standard and we follow processes. thank you very much. >> excuse me, did you say jesuit training? >>> yes. >> do you have a candidate for pope? >>> oh, yes, oh, yes. [laughter] >> bear with me, at the appropriate time. >>> i chatted with you when the white smoke goes up. [laughter] >> well put. any other public comments? i have many requests for specific items, but if you have a public comment generally, please come forward now. welcome. >>> good afternoon, david pilpow. just two brief items under general public comment. first, on the cover i hav
so, at one of the earlier meetings some weeks ago, one of the employees who works for the hrc but is paid by sfpuc came here and made some statements that were not correct. and when i was attending that meeting, according to the process, i did not see the members who were there, and one of those members is here. i did not see the process brought to this committee correctly. so, i'm just going to speak about this. i've written an article and i'm going to write another one on this. but,...
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was public works director; there has been a lot of good work from the coalition, from the previously hrc, now the city administrator's office, it's been a great thing for severn san francisco businesses. to be honest, for 840 million dollars with the work in san francisco for such an important and visible and symbolic project, i concur with a lot of the comments of the people who spoke in terms of being disappointed that there's not more san francisco businesses, listed subcontractors that will be able to participate. i am heartened to hear that the contractor is willing instead and try to make whatever opportunities remain available for local businesses despite the fact that we cannot compel him to do so. i think the last gentleman's comment, we did put a strong workforce by which in the contract; we did a local hire ordinance does not apply. first source requirements do and many of the source requirement individuals are local. we are hopeful that more local businesses have those opportunities. what we are faced with at this point, recognizing as you say, kind of where we are, our choic
was public works director; there has been a lot of good work from the coalition, from the previously hrc, now the city administrator's office, it's been a great thing for severn san francisco businesses. to be honest, for 840 million dollars with the work in san francisco for such an important and visible and symbolic project, i concur with a lot of the comments of the people who spoke in terms of being disappointed that there's not more san francisco businesses, listed subcontractors that will...
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now, the mayor, i'm telling you this mayor has experienced everything from hrc where he was really focused on local businesses and went to purchasing about providing opportunities to local businesses and i worked closely with him because he was my boss at the department of public works and now the city administrator and now the mayor. it's a great honor to look at all the things we've been able to accomplish, the micro set aside program and job contracting and we look at ways to invest in local businesses, san francisco businesses because we feel with that will really help employee citizens of san francisco. with that i would like to introduce mayor ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, har land. happy holidays! it's good to be in the bayview in san francisco during the holidays. we have not been able to say that for a long time. but i want to thank har lynn and his staff and commissioner courtney and commissioner moran and puc staff commission and also department of public works, dbi is here tonight, the mta, the ports, treasure islands, they are involved with hundreds of millions of dollars
now, the mayor, i'm telling you this mayor has experienced everything from hrc where he was really focused on local businesses and went to purchasing about providing opportunities to local businesses and i worked closely with him because he was my boss at the department of public works and now the city administrator and now the mayor. it's a great honor to look at all the things we've been able to accomplish, the micro set aside program and job contracting and we look at ways to invest in local...
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she contacted the mayor's disability office and the ordinance is 90-10 and it concerned me that the hrc and mayor's office of disability didn't know about it. it's rather short and my concern was that there was to be publicity and that didn't happen. i would suggest and i can speak to carla later and joanna about this coming to compliance with the compliance. the other thing that concerns me seriously is what to do if you need to have reasonable accommodations and you didn't get it. i was trying to get reasonable accommodations august of 2010 and i didn't know this had been passed and i suffered at the hands of the evil landlord. thank you. i will see you on item 7 as well. >> thank you very much. >> if you can, when you fill out your speaker card, i didn't see your item, that's why i didn't call it. it doesn't have 3 on here. i'm sorry. thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? okay. thank you very much. seeing there is no more public comment. the report from the chair, good afternoon, everyone. i am chair wilson and i would like to mention a couple of things in my report.
she contacted the mayor's disability office and the ordinance is 90-10 and it concerned me that the hrc and mayor's office of disability didn't know about it. it's rather short and my concern was that there was to be publicity and that didn't happen. i would suggest and i can speak to carla later and joanna about this coming to compliance with the compliance. the other thing that concerns me seriously is what to do if you need to have reasonable accommodations and you didn't get it. i was...
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the admin code currently recognizes this is the informally the hrc program which is now under contract division. in 2006 that program was expanded to also include firms that are also outside of the city of san francisco to support the contractors working on the puc and water system improvements programs. as that program comes to an end, which we are in the latter phases of the water system improvement program, we have currently certified 200 plus firms over the last several years. if we don't expand that program, all of those firms that were certified over the last five years or so, those firms won't have any future opportunities to participate under the city's small business program. therefore, working with the puc, and with our partners that manage the lbe program, and developed the proposed legislation, which would expand the program to projects that aren't just funded by the bond dollars for the water system improvement program. but would also include shared cost funds and those outside of the city of san francisco. so this is not a new program. this is really an expansion of the c
the admin code currently recognizes this is the informally the hrc program which is now under contract division. in 2006 that program was expanded to also include firms that are also outside of the city of san francisco to support the contractors working on the puc and water system improvements programs. as that program comes to an end, which we are in the latter phases of the water system improvement program, we have currently certified 200 plus firms over the last several years. if we don't...
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i'm going to speak candidly about him, i've worked with him over 3 years, i saw him serve on the hrc committee, i worked long hours with him, helping clients, working with employers, developing projects, working on proposals and he's got heart, loyalty, hope for the community. he's never lost that personable approach, people can come up to him like carry, he has a lot of support from the community, they trust him. he's very valuable to serving many of the folks from various districts in san francisco. it was an honor to work with him, i miss him as mission hiring hall but i work with him on a new project now and he's still helping people and you never forget the people that helped him get to where he's at and i know he's going to do big and her better things so please consider him, thanks. >> thank you, any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. mr. penn, you know, i just met him today and i feel really good about this nomination. he's got so much energy and, you know, his experience on all the different levels he brings in makes him a perfect candidate for
i'm going to speak candidly about him, i've worked with him over 3 years, i saw him serve on the hrc committee, i worked long hours with him, helping clients, working with employers, developing projects, working on proposals and he's got heart, loyalty, hope for the community. he's never lost that personable approach, people can come up to him like carry, he has a lot of support from the community, they trust him. he's very valuable to serving many of the folks from various districts in san...
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i want to ask you to stand by because we have the president of the hrc, chad griffin, also known as the man with the iphone, that has president obama on the other end from air force one. chad, this is certainly a historic day not only for the human rights campaign, for what you started in taking on the fight with prop 8, a lot of people might not recognize the fact that you were the one that helped spearhead the legal challenges to that. what does today mean to you? >> you know, today all i can think of is that young person today in fresno, california or bakersfield, california who is reading tweets or watching online or on television and seeing this historic decision today. seeing proposition 8 and doma fall and crumble, quite frankly. these two discriminatory pieces of legislation were really the symbols of discrimination in this country. and to see them fall and fall in the way they did today advances us forward greatly and says to that young person in fresno or bakersfield, that they too are equal. they aren't second-class citizens anymore in california. but it also says to that you
i want to ask you to stand by because we have the president of the hrc, chad griffin, also known as the man with the iphone, that has president obama on the other end from air force one. chad, this is certainly a historic day not only for the human rights campaign, for what you started in taking on the fight with prop 8, a lot of people might not recognize the fact that you were the one that helped spearhead the legal challenges to that. what does today mean to you? >> you know, today all...
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as part of an hrc advocacy for the communities and other marginalized communities, they began to sphere head the revitalization to this issue to foster enforcement by working in conjunction with the youth commission to identify efficient ways to provide the impact and departments with the resources needed for greater enforcement of 12 n, and the culture sensitive to the cultural come penalty training. >> as one can imagine, funding was at issue and it was to you know, for the strategy development of the training. we were able to identify the department of public health had already in place a similar training protocol upon which we could perhaps build upon and design the training module. they began to meet regularly to determine and develop a training module and seeking out and we were in contact with an agency. helping us move forward with this application related awareness and training. that organization suffered its own funding issues and had to pull out, and that presented a
as part of an hrc advocacy for the communities and other marginalized communities, they began to sphere head the revitalization to this issue to foster enforcement by working in conjunction with the youth commission to identify efficient ways to provide the impact and departments with the resources needed for greater enforcement of 12 n, and the culture sensitive to the cultural come penalty training. >> as one can imagine, funding was at issue and it was to you know, for the strategy...
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port staff continues to work closely with the contract monitoring division which used to be part of hrc. i work with them on a daily basis and in this quarter $5 million went to local businesses. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have? >> any public comment. i don't think there is any public left. commissioners, questions, comments? >> go ahead. >> i look forward to -- what is it? o e w d coming to talk to us and explaining the whole local hire thing. that's confusing and in america's cup it looks like they are meeting the goal, so why are they asking for waivers? >> we are looking at the snapshot in terms of their development in there, but i think they are looking at some of the waivers. one of the thing they have been doing is participating in the city build program as well there. so it can also be that they just know they might have some issues in terms of meeting the requirements for particular trades. >> actually i think there is more confusion about which of the trade are required to participate. they weren't required in the first place but you may recall as part of the
port staff continues to work closely with the contract monitoring division which used to be part of hrc. i work with them on a daily basis and in this quarter $5 million went to local businesses. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have? >> any public comment. i don't think there is any public left. commissioners, questions, comments? >> go ahead. >> i look forward to -- what is it? o e w d coming to talk to us and explaining the whole local hire thing. that's...
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it's called the welcoming schoo project and tomorrow hrc isis releasing a new film. jointing us tonight is womenmen westheimer the direct of directe program. this goes straight at educatorsd and teaches them how to see signs of bullying and how to help? >> absolutely. educators have been asking us for something likeg us this, thh want something of practical examples of how they can start conversations of bullying and bias in the classroom and this that is the goal of the film. we have filmed those that have been using schools in minneapolis, and showing themowg how they made the connectionon between bullying and bias. the conversation that often gets overlooked. >> i will take a look at this take you and i will chat onchato the other side. >> ugly, stupid, sometimes i'm a girl. >> your religion is fake, not real.real >> you're gay. >> you're brown, you shouldn't be in the school. >> you're wearing a girl's shirt. >> okay, i will change my shirt. >> you know, kim sometimes it's hard to watch that, but will yoo tell me some of the tips that you do give to teachers to t
it's called the welcoming schoo project and tomorrow hrc isis releasing a new film. jointing us tonight is womenmen westheimer the direct of directe program. this goes straight at educatorsd and teaches them how to see signs of bullying and how to help? >> absolutely. educators have been asking us for something likeg us this, thh want something of practical examples of how they can start conversations of bullying and bias in the classroom and this that is the goal of the film. we have...
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certain contracts we have had the monitoring division which used to be part of hrc established micro lbe. even throw isn't an lbe goal, we met that a hundred percent. more details on contract payments for this quarter for lbe. the overall payment reached 21 percent. these are payments made on all active contracts that had lbe requirements with all the existing contracts. the total payments in this quarter total 21 percent are $5 million. broken down between as needed, so as needed contracts, we had about 16 percent, with the total amount there of $105,000 and change which works out to all the as needed contract payments made 16 percent for the quarter. part of that is lower than we try do, we try aim for 20 percent goal. it's really based on what this initial contract sets a minimum goal for each of those contracts. but those can vary and they do vary, but we try to keep a port wide overall goal of 20 percent. that is our understanding of the commission's policy decision on that part of that was driven because are the lawyers project. the mayor's office asked us to bring in a subcont
certain contracts we have had the monitoring division which used to be part of hrc established micro lbe. even throw isn't an lbe goal, we met that a hundred percent. more details on contract payments for this quarter for lbe. the overall payment reached 21 percent. these are payments made on all active contracts that had lbe requirements with all the existing contracts. the total payments in this quarter total 21 percent are $5 million. broken down between as needed, so as needed contracts, we...